Jackson, Robert Best (1930-1938)

updated March 7, 2014.

MD, Bch, DPH (Dubl.). Federated Malay States Medical Service [n.d.]-1930. Hong Kong 1930-38; whereabouts after Hong Kong unknown. Honor: OBE 1938. Address given in 1931: 28, The Grove, Coulsdon, Surrey.

HONG KONG 1930. Government doctor 1930-38, Government Malariologist April 24, 1930; Health Officer July 2, 1937; retired September 13, 1938.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 9, 1938, #451; July 2, 1937, #454. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1930, 1938. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Medical Department for the Year 1937. The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, October 20, 1931, p.7.

Watson, John James Curl (1896)

updated November 2, 2013.

BA 1882; MB 1884; MD 1885 (Dubl.). AMD, Surgeon; Surgeon-Captain July 1886; Boyle; Dublin 1887; Aldershot; India 1892; Dublin; Hong Kong 1896. RAMC 1898, Surgeon-Major July 1898; China 1900, Boxer Rebellion, Relief of Tientsin (Tianjin) and Relief of Peking (Beijing); placed on retired pay October 1910. Honor: MID (London Gazette November 6, 1900); Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) July 22, 1901.

HONG KONG nlt.1896.

b. October 5, 1861, Woolwich – d. April 12, 1913, Swanwick, Hampshire.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, October 22, 1887, p.914; July 18. 1896, p.168; December 24, 1892, p.1410; May 1, 1897, p.1125. Dix Noonan Webb [internet].

Hughes, George Arthur (1901)

updated November 3, 2013

b. May 18, 1851, Clonmel, Ireland – d. April 13, 1926. BA, MBCM (Dubl.) 1875. RAMC, Surgeon February 4, 1877; Afghan War 1878-80; Candahar 1898;  Bechuanaland 1884-85; Major February 4, 1889; Ashanti Campaign 1895-96; Lieutenant-Colonel; February 4, 1897; Sudan 1898; Hong Kong nlt.1901, Principal Medical Officer, Hong Kong and China; Colonel March 25, 1904; retired August 26, 1905. Honor: DSO November 15, 1898.

HONG KONG nlt.1901. Sanitary Board (vice Henry Herbert Brown, resigned) January 12, 1901

5th s/o James Hughes, of Curragh Priven, Rathcormac, County Cork, Ireland.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, November 19, 1898, p.1593, Naval and Military Medical Services. The Hong Kong government Gazette, January 12, 1901, #12. Staff Medical Officers of the Malta Garrison [internet].

[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]

Tottenham, Richard Edward (1925)

updated November 20, 2013.

BA; ChB, MD (Dubl.); DPH; FRCPI; LM; FRCOG. RN, Surgeon; the Great War. Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. Dr. Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 1923. Hong Kong nlt.1925-net.1934. City and County Hospital, Londonderry 1936-49. Honor: King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935.

HONG KONG nlt.1925. Midwives Board 1925-31. Honorary Visiting Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Government Civil Hospital May 15, 1925. Government doctor. Obstetric Physician, Government Civil Hospital April 1, 1931; HKU, (inaugural) Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1925-34 [1], Dean of Faculty of Medicine 1928-29.

b. May 25, 1889-d. May 31, 1971. s/o Edward Tottenham, b. November 25, 1845 – d. January 1, 1925, and Wilhelmina Francis, b.1858-d.1925, m. February 1886. Siblings: 1. Charles Tottenham, d.infancy. m. Norah Margaret Daly October 16, 1925; b. July 16, 1900 – d. May 8, 1965, d/o H.J. Daly, of Doneycarney House, Drogheda. [s.p.] Last known address: Gortmore, 169 Strand Road, Merrion, Dublin 1971.

Publications and Correspondences:  Clinical Report of the Rotunda Hospital for One Year, November 1st, 1913 to October 31, 1914, the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, July 1, 1915, Vol. #140, Issue #1, pp.13-23, co-author: Eric Crichton;  A New Pelvimeter: Illustration, Irish Journal of Medical Science, November, 1922,  pp. 409-416; Aids to Gynecology, Baillière Tindall and Cox, 1923;  Correspondence, November 19, 1923, The British Medical Journal, December 1, 1923, pp.1057-1058; Puerperal Sepeis, Irish Journal of Medical Science, March, 1924, pp.116-123; Stricture of the Vagina: Delivery by Caesarean Section, The British Medical Journal, November 14, 1925, p.897, Memoranda;  A Case Illustrating the (Efficacy of the Uterine Plug) as a Means of Preventing External Hemorrhage after Rupture of the Uterus, the British Journal of Gynecology, September 1929, Vol. #36, Issue #3, pp.595-596;  Three Cases of Irremovable Ovarian Cyst Treated by Drainage, the British Journal of Gynecology, September 1929, Vol. #36, Issue #3, pp.597-598, co-authors: D.K. Pillai, S.K. Lam;  A Short Practice of Gynecology, London: J&A Churchill, 1930, co-author: Henry Jellett;  Impressions of Continental Clinics, Irish Journal of Medical Science, August, 1930, pp.473-478; A Handbook of Midwifery, London: J&A Churchill, 1931; Rupture of the Uterus after Classical Caesarean Section, Irish Journal of Medical Science, p. 474, August, 1931, p.474; Acquired Atresia of the Genital Tract. With note of Cases, the British Journal of gynecology, September 1932, Vol. #39, Issue #3, pp.587-590; Seasonal Incidence of Eclampsia in Hong Kong, the British Medical Journal, December 1933, Vol. #2, Issue #3805, pp.1067-1068; Some Useful Cases of Extra-Uterine Pregnancy, the British Journal of Gynecology, February 1934, Vol. #41, Issue #1, pp.56-62; Notes on Maternity Work in China, Irish Journal of Medical Science, December, 1934, pp.665-669; The Treatment of Uterine Prolapse, Irish Journal of Medical Science, April, 1939, pp.173-175; Irish Radium Committee: Report for the year 1939. With reports by Oswald J. Murphy, Oliver Chance and R. E. Tottenham, the Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, June, 1940, pp.273-277; Irish Radium Committee: Report for the year 1941. With reports by Oswald J. Murphy, Oliver Chance and R. E. Tottenham, the Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, July, 1942, pp.1-5; Note on the Use of Radium in Conjunction with Surgery in Gynecology, Irish Journal of Medical Science, March, 1949, pp.125-127; Vitamin A and Hyperkeratosis, the British Medical Journal, January 7, 1956, p.46.

[1] The teaching activities in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology were transferred from Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital to Tsan Yuk Hospital. When Queen Mary Hospital opened in 1937, teaching of gynecology went there while teaching of obstetrics remained at Tsan Yuk. These arrangements remain unchanged.

Selected bibliography: The Descendants of John, Eldest Son of “Tottenham in His Boots”, through the Youngest Children from His Second Marriage [internet]. Evans, Dafydd Emrys  (Ed.) Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 15, 1925, #283, #287; June 22, 1928, #349; March 27, 1931, #185; May 6, 1935, #362. Medical Faculty News, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, December 1999, p.1.

Thompson, Henry Neville (1885)

updated August 31, 2013

b. March 15, 1861. Armagh Royal School, Dublin; BA, MB, Bch, Trinity College (Dubl.). Army Medical Department, Surgeon August 1884. Hong Kong 1885. Hong Kong Government, Acting Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital (vice Charles John Wharry, sick leave) 1885, (vice Michael Thomas Yarr, also a AMD surgeon) November 1-17, 1887. RAMC, Major August 2, 1896;  Lieutenant-Colonel August 2, 1904; Colonel November 17, 1913;  Major General December 26, 1917. Surgeon General, 1st Army, British Army in France 21 July 21, 1917. Nile Expedition 1898. African War 1900-1901. The Great War 1914-1918. Honor: Queen's Medal, King's Medal, DSO 1902, Delhi Durbar Medal 1903,  Coronation Medal 1911, CMG 1916, CB 1917, KCMG 1918, Croix de Guerre (France), Distinguished Service Medal (USA), Grande-Oficial Ordem Militar de Avis (Portugal).

s/o Reverend Mungo Neville Thompson,  Rector of Clonmany, Donegal, and Charlotte Blake, of Castlegrove, Co. Galway.

[On his second day working at the Government Civil Hospital, Thompson asked the police to arrest the hospital's ward master, John Roy (32), and his predecessor, Henry Watson (35), for stealing from patients in the hospitals two of whom were in dying conditions. Watson instantaneously fled to Canton where he was later apprehended by a Hong Kong police inspector on November 4. He was charged with four counts of larceny and was sentenced to seven years hard labor. Roy was charged with aiding and abetting Watson, but was discharged by proclamation. It was quite ironic that while Roy was being tried, he himself became the victim of theft. The offenders were Ho Abo, Roy's servant, and Ho Awai, a nurse of the hospital; both were charged with theft.]

Selected bibliography: AngloBoerWar.com [internet]. The China Mail, November 5, 1997, p.3, The Government Civil Hospital Scandal; November 24, 1887, p.3, Two of the Hospital Servants Charged with Theft; December 21, 1887, p.3, The Civil Hospital Case; The Charge against John Roy. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Colonial Surgeon for the Year 1887.

Stewart, Philip Smyly (1931)

updated

MBBS (Dubl.) 1903. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 8, 1931. Address: St. Stephen's College, Stanley (1931).

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 8, 1931, Notice #282.

Murray, Herbert Edward (1919)

updated

MBBS, BMid (Dubl.) October 20, 1913. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 16, 1919. Residence: #5 Observatory Villas, Kowloon 1919.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 16, 1919, Notice #224.